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Effect of Timing and Method of Enteral Tube Feeding For Dysphagic Stroke Patients (FOOD): a Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial Lancet 365:764-772, 729, The FOOD Trial Collaboration, 2005 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Early tube feeding might reduce case fatality, but at the expense of increasing the proportion surviving with poor outcome. Our data do not support a policy of early initiation of PEG feeding in dysphagic stroke patients.

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